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Course Syllabus
The table below gives the actual syllabus for the course.
The readings are from Essentials of Programming Languages by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, and Christopher T. Haynes, MIT Press and McGraw-Hill, 1992, except as noted.
| Dates | Topics | Readings | Optional Readings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 21 | Course Policies, Introduction | Handouts, Course Web Site | Forward, Preface |
| Aug. 23-28 | Designing a Language | In class discussion | Structure and Interp. of Computer Programs 1 |
| Aug. 30-Sept. 6 | Tools for Symbolic Programming | Chapter 1 | The Little Schemer 1-2 |
| Sept. 8-Sept. 29 | Induction, Recursion, and Scope | Chapter 2.1-2.2 | The Little Schemer 3-8 |
| Monday., Oct. 2 | Test I | Chapters 1 and 2.1-2.2 | |
| Oct. 4-Oct. 6 | Scope | Chapter 2.2 | |
| Monday., Oct. 9 | Makeup for Test I | Chapters 1 and 2.1-2.2 | |
| Oct. 11-Oct. 13 | Scope | Chapter 2.2 | |
| Oct. 16-20 | Syntactic Abstraction | Chapter 3.1-3.3 | |
| Oct. 23-Oct. 27 | Data Abstraction | Chapter 3.4-3.7 | |
| Mon., Oct. 30 | Test II | Chapters 2.2 (including tail recursion) and 2.3 | |
| Nov. 1-Nov. 6 | Data Abstraction | Chapter 3.4-3.7 | |
| Nov. 8-Nov. 15 | Imperatives | Chapter 4.5-4.6 | Chapter 4.1-4.3, 4.7 |
| Fri., Nov. 17 | Test III | Chapter 3 | |
| Nov. 20 | Interpreters | Chapter 5 | |
| Nov. 22-Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving break, no classes | ||
| Nov. 27-Dec. 6 | Interpreters | Chapter 5.1-5.5 | Chapters 5.6-5.7, 6, 7 |
| Dec. 7 | Course Summary and Evaluation | ||
| Tues., Dec. 12, 4:30-6:30 p.m. | Final Test | Chapters 3.5-3.6, 4.5-4.6, 5.1-5.4 | Chapters 5.5-5.7 |
Last modified Friday, December 29, 2000.